On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Scott Thompson <ea...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> I'm playing around with Scripting Bridge trying to script >> Terminal.app. I'm running into issues with adding a new tab to a >> window, and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. >> Consider this gist: https://gist.github.com/1005066 >> >> The only information I could find that was remotely similar was doing >> something similar with Safari here: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2912161/new-tab-in-safari-window-from-cocoa-and-scripting-bridge >> I tried converting that over to MacRuby, and I get the same error as >> when I try my gist above. >> >> RuntimeError: NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[SBElementArray >> addObject:]: can't add an object that already exists. >> >> Hopefully I'm just doing something silly? > > From what I've been able to find on the Web, the terminal app doesn't allow > you to create a new tab using AppleScript (directly). Instead what you have > to do is address the System Events application and use it to issue a "cmd-T" > command.
For an example of scripting Terminal this way, see Terminitor <https://github.com/achiu/terminitor>. > > I would also report a bug against Terminal.app on bugreport.apple.com. > > Scott _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
